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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
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Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
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SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
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After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.
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Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
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The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.
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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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